newborn
- adjective
- /ˈnuːbɔrn/
- Young couple comes home from the hospital with their newborn baby.
- newborn babies
- newborn infants
- newborn calves
You're like, well, Kevin, here's the newborn screen.
- You're like, well, Kevin, here's the newborn screen.
- You are going to be a newborn Bambi for the next three days.
Examples
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The young couple proudly introduced their newborn baby to family and friends.
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Parents walk with their newborn babies to calm them down all the time.
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I promise to treat her with all the love and respect of my newborn daughter.
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No newborn baby has control.
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Willow and Henry were there with their newborn baby.
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I admit that I get jealous when I see newborn twins sleeping together.
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Ted, holding his newborn daughter, sat quietly next to the bed where his sheet-covered wife still lies.
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But recently they'd moved back to Annette with their newborn son.
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In 1926, however, disaster struck: within a few months, Schumpeter's mother, wife, and newborn son died.
Academic text (1991) -
I could even start with a peace offering like this video of newborn kittens chasing a laser pointer.
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Synonyms
Relating to newborn babies during their first month after birth
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
High levels of a yellow blood substance in newborn babies that make their skin and eyes yellow
- Specialized
A yellow colour on a newborn baby's skin that usually goes away on its own
- Specialized
A serious lung problem in newborn babies, often premature, when their lungs cannot open properly and they have trouble breathing
- Specialized
Newborn babies breathe quickly and then stop for short times
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A common harmless yellowing of a baby's skin and eyes from an immature liver that goes away
How Young
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
As an adjective, newborn is made from new ('not old') plus born ('to be born'), so it describes a baby or animal that was recently born.